Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper It is heavy for its

It is heavy for its size and feels quite substantial

and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson

it seems pretty stable at this point

green and orange

leaf and vine design that is striking against its black body

Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper It is heavy for itsI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find this and one other (listed separately) herbarium pages, I'd guess removed from a larger volume. This one is Hounds Tongue, a robust plant, as one can see (!),